{"id":13146,"date":"2026-01-09T00:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/?page_id=13146"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:28:51","slug":"artist-statement-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with Reclaimed Wood | Kota | Oneness Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement-a\/#Dialogue_with_Reclaimed_Wood\" >Dialogue with Reclaimed Wood<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement-a\/#About\" >About<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement-a\/#Artist_Statement\" >Artist Statement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement-a\/#Cosmic_Rhythm_Series\" >Cosmic Rhythm Series:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"pl-13146\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-13146-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div style=\"padding: 100px 0; \" data-overlay=\"true\" class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-13146-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-13146-0-0\"  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class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dialogue_with_Reclaimed_Wood\"><\/span><strong>Dialogue with Reclaimed Wood<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Scattered throughout the city are large metal skips \u2014 industrial containers filled mostly with materials discarded during renovations. I climb into these skips myself, and enter into a dialogue with what I find there. Shapes, scratches, deterioration, texture \u2014 each piece is a wholly unique material. Every one of them bears traces of having shared time with someone, somewhere. They carry layers of time and story. In them, wabi-sabi dwells.<br \/>\nThe destiny of encountering these materials at that specific moment, in that specific place \u2014 a meeting that could never happen elsewhere \u2014 carries the spirit of ichigo-ichie. I pick up what calls to me, what feels like go-en. I wash it \u2014 a misogi, a purification. Then, through the practice of <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/cosmic-rhythm-series\/\">Cosmic Rhythm<\/a>, I sublimate it into a work of art.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About\"><\/span>About<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"I am Oneness Artist, Kota\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/about-2\/\">Artist Kota<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Artist_Statement\"><\/span>Artist Statement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Artist Statement | Kota \u2013 Oneness Artist | Cosmic Rhythm\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/artist-statement\/\">How I breathe life into reclaimed wood.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cosmic_Rhythm_Series\"><\/span>Cosmic Rhythm Series:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Works | Cosmic Rhythm Series | Kota | Oneness Artist\" href=\"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/en\/cosmic-rhythm-series\/\">View All Works<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue with Reclaimed Wood Scattered throughout the c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13162,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/?page_id=13123","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13146","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13713,"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13146\/revisions\/13713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kota-yoshida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}